Photos for October 22, 2008

Texas' Colt McCoy (pictured), Oklahoma's Sam Bradford and Missouri's Chase Daniel are part of the new wave of Big 12 quarterbacks who have taken the conference's offenses to a new level. Coaches said the days of lockdown defenses in the conference could be gone for good.

Mike Singletary, the San Francisco 49ers' new interim head coach, speaks at a news conference. Singletary was introduced Tuesday in Santa Clara, Calif.

Paul Sakuma/AP Photo

Margaret Swafford

Andrew John Mullin

Two work horses wait in a sea of corn stalks for the driver of their cart on a farm in Troy Township, Ohio, on Tuesday morning.

Amy Sancetta/AP Photo

Prostitute Patricia West, 22, poses for a photograph Friday in front of City Hall in San Francisco. San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K, which forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex.

Chandrayaan-1, India's maiden lunar mission, is seen soon after the launch today at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, about 63 miles north of Chennai, India. India launched its first mission to the moon today, rocketing the satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface.

Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo

Sikh holy men known as Panj Pyara hold their swords as they sit before a procession outside the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, during the 300th anniversary celebrations of Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, Tuesday in Amritsar, India. The Sikh Holy Scripture was declared by the 10th and the last Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, on Oct. 20, 1708, at Nanded in Maharashtra state.

Altaf Qadri/AP Photo

Barbie Fashion and Beauty from Mattel is displayed at the American International Toy Fair in New York in this Feb. 14 file photo. Toy maker Mattel Inc. has raised its prices for this Christmas shopping season and warns that more increases are likely to follow next year.